Senate Subcommittee Discusses Disaster Rebuilding Costs

JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri Senators doling out disaster relief funds were not happy Tuesday, when state agencies could not estimate clean up costs in disaster zones across the state.

In a public hearing Tuesday, state budget director Linda Luebbering testified before the Interim Senate Subcommittee on Fiscal Response. She told committee members there was not enough information to outline a concrete estimate on what natural disasters would cost the state.

""It's still very early in the process. FEMA is focused on doing the debris removal. And the estimates about what it's ultimately going to cost are going to come, we just don't have them yet," she said.